Haywire

Mauling Mallory Mends Mission Malice
Haywire, R, ***, Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas. Relativity Media. Director Steven Soderbergh. Length 93 minutes.

By not wasting time, this movie begins with action in a roadside cafe within minutes of the first scene. Fortunately, it does reveal the story of what is going on as the action continues right up to the moment when the credits begin to roll.
The movie has a well known cast such as Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender, Bill Paxton, Michael Douglas, and Antonio Banderas. Most of the above actors are bad guys with the exception of a few and some of them are questionable.
The audience has to figure out just why so many people are trying to eliminate the main character. The individual that everyone is trying to destroy is Mallory (Gina Carano) who is one tough good looking woman. A former marine with plenty of self-defense skills, Mallory probably does not have to depend on very many stunt actors. She is a free-lance covert operator. It is without doubt Mallory is one of the best.
With her movements and obvious skills, she can hold her own with most fight scenes. Carano is a retired mixed martial arts fighter – and it becomes obvious at the very first of the movie. According to Wikipedia, Carano was formerly the #3-ranked 145-pound female.
Back to Mallory and her difficult moments with some very bad guys. The audience begins to piece the puzzle together as Mallory fights for her life. Three items must be explained, and they are Barcelona, Dublin, and a guy named Paul.
Mallory takes a willing college kid and his car in order to escape from the café and more bad guys. Since she handled the bad guy who arrived at the cafe, she must continue to stay on the move. After all more unpleasant guys are on the way. As the story begins to reveal itself, the audience is subjected to confrontations with martial arts, guns, cars, roof jumping, climbing, and a little torture along the way.
Mallory is beautiful, dangerous, and extremely capable. Taking the trip with Mallory, the audience will enjoy the puzzle as it slowly reveals itself. To semi quote the song - Take time to know her by Percy Sledge, the audience has to take time to know the story. The story is not an overnight thing.
Fortunately, the audience gets to visit Barcelona, Dublin, and New Mexico as the plot emerges. It is difficult to take ones eyes off of Mallory (Gina Carano). It appears that with Carano’s expertise, the fight scenes seem to look realistic.
I enjoyed most of the movie, and I especially liked the sudden ending. Obviously, according to previous scenes explaining the situation the audience will know what is about to happen.